Bigs Quote by James Clavell

I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will stand by…

— Roddy Doyle

But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn…

— Jonathan Coe

I'm always writing across the same themes. But with short stories, I'm doing something different than with novels. In some ways, they're coming from…

— Lynn Coady

I hadn't meant to do the pattern of publishing short stories and then a novel. I thought, 'I'm a novelist. I know it.' But…

— Andrew Sean Greer

I try to write short novels and leave details out not because I want to be minimalist, but because I think that it enables…

— Mohsin Hamid

I'm only a novelist on occasion. Many of my books are made up of brief texts collected together, short stories, or else they are…

— Italo Calvino

When you write a novel you have to live with the characters for a long time. So I prefer short stories. I never wrote…

— Ruskin Bond

Once I had started, I discovered the secret pleasure of writing a novel. It's such an immersive, deep commitment. With short stories, you're continually…

— Debra Dean

I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but…

— Jackie Collins

Writing a book is something I actually feel like I could do. I don't know when that would happen, but I feel like if…

— Paul F. Tompkins

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

— Benjamin Disraeli

I've always been a little bit more of a novel reader than a short story reader. I think the first books that made me…

— Nell Freudenberger